2025 Planning Party

I've decided I should try and set some goals for 2025. I'm a little reluctant since I had so little desire to make anything last year, but I am hoping my recently acquired motivation will persist.

I'm going to come up with a pretty short list of goals. I think it's better to have a short list that I can finish, than a long list I don't finish.

First, I would like to finish the Chilhowie quilt. I've got the flimsy finished, I've received the backing fabric, and I've got the quilting plan figured out.

Second, I'd like to make two more quilts for the living room in the same fabrics. Not the same pattern, but the same fabrics. I think one of them will be Judy Martin's Fall Foliage Spectacular from her Cookies 'n' Quilts book.

The border on this isn't quite right, but it's close enough.

Third, I'd like to finish (or at least do a lot of work on) one of the three UFOs in my stash. I'm not sure which one, but at least one of them. My choices are: 

• the Stained Glass quilt (it takes so long to make the blocks),
• the Desert Sunset (I got stuck at a point where the some of the blocks were the wrong size and I didn't have enough fabric to make more), and 
• the Japanese Poppy EPP (I was dissatisfied with how the points were matching so I set it aside.)

Finally, I have some non-quilt projects I'd like to finish. My husband asked me to make him insulated shopping bags for buying cold items and I have tried, but I've struggled to find a pattern that doesn't end up with too many layers to fit under my sewing machine foot. So, I'm going to try again. And again, until I can get it. My husband doesn't ask for much, so I want to make these bags for him.

I struggled to finish much of anything in 2024, so I'll be delighted to get this much done in 2025.

Linking up with the 2025 Quilting Planning Party.